best book? mines still zen and art of motorcycle maintenance tbh

[Snin]

Read it 3 times @ 16, 30 and 40 , each time just realised its me , my dad n now my son , takes ages as read a few pages, think then go back even further n read again
. Old Phaedrus or whoever def still chases me sometimes! Amazing..will read again in 5 years or so. Cath 22 , 1984 and fanny champion of the world all deserve honourable mentions

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[arse-nick (avid-analogue-addict)]

tended to go back fairly frequently on the previous page.

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arse-nick (avid-analogue-addict) wrote on Fri, 12 June 2015 23:14



tended to go back fairly frequently on the previous page.




Reading and re reading but so true about quality and if you read it now it stands test of time and is if anything more pertinent in todays culture tbh...the only really life changing book ive read

[the splendor of antigone]

Lost Illusions by Balzac
Underworld and White Noise by Delillo
American Pastoral and Sabbath's Theatre by Roth
Blood Meridian and Suttree by McCarthy
The Sound and the Fury, Absalom Absalom!, and As I Lay Dying by Faulkner
A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway
The Idiot by Dostoevsky


Funniest wons:
A Confederacy of Dunces
Catch 22


I'm reading 'Lost in the Cosmos: the Last Self-Help Book' right now, it's good stuff :bow:

Kafka's good too :thumbup:

[Mo Britain less Europe]

The Secret History, The Sea The Sea, The Comfort of Strangers and Wuthering Heights on any list.

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As you are both very interesting chaps in a linear world. Id like to also hear ash choice imo

[the splendor of antigone]

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[the splendor of antigone]

stuff tho :nod:

[barrybueno]

go along.

I'd get my coat but it's too warm.

[the splendor of antigone]

[barrybueno]

I'm glad I've made the decision to get slaughtered over the next 2/3 hours now. I thank you :-)

[Supermac1976]

How the f**k did she end up with that jazz hobbit?

Oh favorite books, Geek Love by Katherine Dunn is pretty good, Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes & The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster.

[barrybueno]

Now I know what a peasant is :cry:

:hehe:

[the splendor of antigone]

but here goes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXJxi1Odfjk

:music: 'Cause theres a switch that gets hit and it all stops making sense
And in the middle of drinks, maybe the fifth or the sixth
I'm completely alone at a table of friends
I feel nothing for them. I feel nothing, nothing
...
But the night rolls around and it all starts making sense
There is no right way or wrong way, you just have to live
And so I do what I do and at least I exist
What could mean more than this?
What would mean more?
Mean more? :music:

You can call me a faggot :-)

[barrybueno]

You never typed that in :-(

[the splendor of antigone]

[barrybueno]

relationship is over. I'm now gonna smash up something crap in my flat. (Won't be hard to find something tbh :hehe: )

[barrybueno]

Maybe bbq at Cap. C's with Berni et al

c**ts

[Ashberto]

I actually had the pleasure this evening of drinking in the company of the great Ian Harvey (peace be upon him) amongst others.

Then got home and watched a prog about the recording of Parallel Lines. Cracking stuff. wd BBC4 imo.

[barrybueno]

Ian harvey :cloud9: I met the great man once in the 'Bine

Awimb's loss let's face it :cry:

Hope you're here for another hour, I've got another bottle left
...

[Ashberto]

:-|

You like Blondie, don't you Baz? You should catch that prog, it was good.

[Ashberto]

[Ashberto]

[barrybueno]

blondie. I dunno, stereotyping me like that :hehe:

[Snin]

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

My Family and Other Animals amongst a lot of others...
I loved the Milligan war novels as well.

[Herbette Chapman - aged 15]

description. By the half way point I wanted Phaedrus to materialize and kill the whining cvnt.

[The Tony]

[ITSUPFORGRABSNOW]

I seem to have lent my last copy and lost it.

So many good books

[ITSUPFORGRABSNOW]

When I was laid up with a compound radius and ulna in 1976. THose books were laugh out loud in public funny. Embarrassing when commuting.